Abstract
Trial excavations at the Roman site of Stroyno-Yurta conducted by the Yambol History Museum during 2006 and 2007 identified it as a veteran settlement dating between the first and fourth centuries AD. In 2009, the Tundzha Regional Archaeology Project (TRAP) surveyed the accessible parts of the site, revealing extensive and ongoing looting.
Consequently, in 2014-2015 the Stroyno Archaeology Project (SAP), a cooperative effort involving the Yambol History Museum and the Institute of Classical Archaeology at Charles University in Prague, excavated to establish the site's chronology and character before it was damaged further. This investigation revealed the foundations of a five-room structure, probably a house with a shop or workshop, occupied from ca.
AD 225-300, which was part of a long-lived settlement founded in the mid-second century and abandoned sometime after the house was levelled.